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Post by norfolkandgood on Oct 13, 2021 8:02:53 GMT
I'd pay good money to watch that Norman! It seems to be a 'thing' with fibre glass that cuts and the like go septic. That's why I'm always careful about breathing in the fibres for fear of what it can do in the lung. Asbestos and the repeated manrta by people who didn't have to work with it that 'it's that safe you can eat it' still rings in my ears. For spelks of wood and metal I prefer the Swann Morton Home Surgery approach, usually while biting down on a shaving strop John Wayne style. Guy
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cfmrc
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Post by cfmrc on Oct 13, 2021 8:21:09 GMT
My favourite is a scalpel to clear away the boundary area followed by needle sharp tweezers. If that doesn't work I just wait a couple of days and the splinter seems to rise to the surface on its own and virtually falls out. I guess layers of skin wear away leaving the splinter where it is? Dont talk to me about scalpel's !!!!!! in 1957 I was working in a company called Falcon fibre glass car shells and got a fibre glass splinter in my left index finger, went to the doctor who looked at it and said come back it two weeks. Two weeks later it was like E.T's, a big red blob, throbing, with a blue line starting to go up my arm, anyway he sat me on the couch so I could not see what he was doing, and he lanced it with a bloody great scalpel, the puss actually did hit the ceiling and did it hurt, YES. Norman. The old Guy’s motto that I was taught: The sun should never set on undrained pus! Tim
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Post by ettingtonliam on Oct 13, 2021 10:44:40 GMT
If you ever have to work with Greenheart, a heavy (so heavy it won't float) hardwood timber much used in the past for marine piles because of its resistance to rot, a splinter of that will certainly go septic if you don't get it out pretty quick. Its probably a prohibited species now, I last used it around 20 years ago for longitudinal rail bearers in a replacement railway bridge we were building. Greenheart timber set in boiling pitch, how Victorian can you get?. No it wasn't a heritage rail job, it was for Network Rail (or was it still Railtrack in 1995?
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tigermoth
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Post by tigermoth on Oct 13, 2021 14:22:46 GMT
Greenheart, yup a right heavy wood, bugger to work with, but lasts for years and never needs any more preservative after the pitch is in place, gets all over your hands/clothes etc.
Think it was used on Southend pier in the early days.
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Post by norfolkandgood on Oct 14, 2021 8:23:15 GMT
Blackthorn, I find also is liable to go bad ways if a spelk is left to fester. Guy
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Post by fleetbank on Oct 13, 2023 14:21:28 GMT
About 40 years ago an old toolmaker showed me how to remove swarf (or 'pins' as I think they were known) from hands in the workshop, especially the tiny ones; rub a hacksaw blade gently across the skin, works a treat.
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